Fort Gibson National Cemetery: Difference between revisions

* A [[cenotaph]] to Corporal John Haddo, Medal of Honor recipient for action in [[Montana Territory]] during the [[Indian Wars]] who is buried in a mass grave in [[Custer National Cemetery]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/1739 |title=Military Times Hall of Valor |access-date=2014-10-02 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141002173512/http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=1739 |archive-date=2014-10-02 |url-status=live }}</ref>

* Medal of Honor recipients

John Haddoo (1851–1877), Indian Wars ([[cenotaph]])

First Lieutenant [[Jack C. Montgomery]] (1917–2002), recipient for action in [[World War II]]

Private First Class [[John N. Reese Jr.]] (1923–1945), recipient for action in [[World War II]]

Captain [[Sonuk Mikko]] (Billy Bowlegs) (c. 1810–1859), [[Seminole]] who fought for the Union in the American Civil War

[[Paul "Buddy" Burris]] (1923–2007), professional football player

[[Joel Elliott]] (1840–1868), Civil War soldier and officer

[[Benjamin Hoskins Paddock|Benjamin Paddock]] (1926–1998), FBI 10-most wanted criminal in the 1960s, father of [[Stephen Paddock]] (1953–2017), who was responsible for the [[2017 Las Vegas shooting]]

[[Theodore M. Risenhoover]] (1934–2006), United States Congressman

[[Vivia Thomas]] (?–1870), figure of a local legend that she was the daughter of a wealthy [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] family, and that she was abandoned at the wedding altar by a soldier who was assigned to Fort Gibson. She disguised herself as a man so she could pass as a soldier and travelled to the Fort alone, confronted him and killed him. She later died of pneumonia that she was said to have contracted while repeatedly braving cold and harsh weather to visit his grave site.